Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said Friday that he won’t be intimidated by charges of sexism from a State Department spokeswoman.
The comments marked the third day of a public feud involving O’Reilly and two flaks at the State Department.
It began Wednesday, when O’Reilly levied critical comments toward State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
“With all due respect, and you don’t have to comment on this, that women looks way out of her depth over there,” he told Fox reporter James Rosen during a segment on the “O’Reilly Factor.” “Just the way she delivers, it just doesn’t look like she has the gravitas for that job.”
Those comments prompted Psaki’s fellow spokeswoman at the agency, Marie Harf, to lash out at O’Reilly both on Twitter and from the podium at the State Department.
“I think that when the anchor of a leading cable news show uses quite frankly sexist, personally offensive language that I actually don’t think they would ever use about a man, against the person that shares this podium with me, I think I have an obligation and I think it’s important to step up and say that’s not OK,” Harf said during a Thursday press briefing.
O’Reilly insisted that he wasn’t bothered by Harf’s comments, but he continued to fight back on Friday.
He opened his program by noting that he’s also gone after plenty of men, such as White House press secretary Josh Earnest, before welcoming journalist Cathy Areu and tea party activist Scottie Neil Hughes to continue the debate.
Hughes, you could probably guess, had O’Reilly’s back, making the host’s banter with Areu far more spirited.
After Areu took issue with his choice of words in criticizing Psaki, O’Reilly took the opportunity to air his grievance with the feminist movement.
“Your problem, and your feminist cohorts’ problem, is you don’t want to be treated equally,” he told Areu. “You want special treatment! Yes, you do!”
OReilly characterized Harf’s response to him as “an intimidating tactic used by some women to shut men up up for criticizing them.”
“It’s intimidating, and you know what? It works. But it doesn’t work here,” he said.
Falafel man has been an outspoken misogynist for years now.
"OReilly characterized Harf’s response to him as “an intimidating tactic used by some women”
O’Lielly’s problem is that ALL women intimidate him…
Sorry Billo, you’re the one who thinks you deserve special treatment. You are the one arrogant enough to rudely talk over our guests. You are the one who shoves people away on the street. You are the one who does not understand where tides come from or how the Sun came to be. You are the one who consistently tries to be the expert at everything. But you’re just a hack, Bill. A blowhard hack.
Get over yourself.
FLAK! Spelling fail!
If equal treatment of women is ‘special’, Billo
Hell, yeah!!
O’Really! keeping dummies dumb.